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Belarus: Newspaper Faces Shutdown

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Belarus, Digital Activism, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Politics, Protest

Nasha Niva – “the last independent paper” – is about to be shut down, according to br23 blog [1] and TOL's Belarus Blog [2]. “Department of ideology wants to close it down because the editor-in-chief… was in jail for 10 days. That’s the reason they give for wanting to close their offices. Let me remind you, the editor-in-chief Andrej Dynko was detained at a bus stop on the October square on March 21st, when he tried to bring some food to the protesters on the square […],” writes br23 blog.